Make America Great Again.

You can't read stories like this, and then go off and laugh all night long. You'd think a community organizer from the South Side would better understand the changes in our country today, and the senseless waste of good lives...

“He was always the first guy to bail and go do homework,” Mr. Lino said. Then he caught his wording and sighed. “I can’t believe I have to say ‘was.’
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“He died senselessly, that’s all I can say,” Mr. Micalizzi’s father, John, said, his voice trembling as he spoke from the family’s home in Freehold, N.J., where relatives and friends had gathered to cope with the news. “He was a good kid, studying very hard for his engineering degree. I haven’t met a single person who didn’t love him.”

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Are you better off now than you were 8 years ago?

Is it worth trying to fix our country, and make real change?

Or is this ... as good as it gets??

The killing was the second time in less than a month that a college student was killed in the area. On April 10, a student at the Newark campus of Rutgers University, Shani Patel, was shot to death in his off-campus apartment on Central Avenue, and his roommate, a recent graduate of the school, was seriously wounded. Marcus Feliz of Newark was charged in the killing.
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“You always hear the rumors about crime,” said Mr. Lino, 22, a sophomore studying network security, who said he planned to transfer out of the college. “I figured it was overblown, but now after the shooting last month and this, I’m realizing it’s very real. “The city falsely propagates this idea that Newark is safe again, but they need to put their money where their mouth is. Why wouldn’t there be any security guards? It’s a busy intersection.”
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On Monday afternoon, as gray clouds gathered overhead, a group of Tau Kappa Epsilon members embraced one another and shook their heads in disbelief outside their red brick fraternity house, with its large white Greek letters trimmed in red marking the front of the building. On the building’s side hung an enormous American flag. A front window was smashed open next to a sign saying, “Warning premises protected by 24-hour video surveillance.” A faded yellow emergency call box hung next to the front door.

John Micalizzi and Mr. Lino said the house had been broken into recently. They said a man came in and took some cellphones and wallets before fleeing at the sight of a fraternity member.

“With all these other problems,” John Micalizzi said, “I’m scratching my head why they didn’t ramp up security. The students all pay a hefty fee to study there. There’s no explanation for it.”

Peace Through Strength...
and Gravitas (it's really not so funny anymore, when the results of society's inequities can no longer be outrun... and the carnage adds up.)